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Many believe that the public could use performance information to make a choice regarding their health care providers and this will actually lead to a better quality of health care in general, but Martin Marshall and Vin McLoughlin from The Health Foundation, seem to think otherwise.The two believe that the choice pa... |
26 November 2010
04:53 GMT |
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A new Commonwealth Fund-supported study, concluded that the life expectancy of Americans continues to fall behind other countries', and the phenomenon has nothing to do with obesity, smoking, traffic fatalities, and homicide.The study was carried out by Peter Muennig and Sherry Glied at Columbia University, who ... |
7 October 2010
05:51 GMT |
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In a move that is being hailed as the most daring social reform the United States experienced in the last 40 years, the US Congress passed the new health care reform bill on Sunday night. The vote, 219 to 212, was decided for by a Democrat-held Congress, although some of the most conservative democrats voted against ... |
22 March 2010
10:04 GMT |
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iPhone users in the United States who would like to educate themselves in the U.S. health care industry ca do so in a fun and attractive way from now on, through a new game from People Operating Technology, namely Death Panel. The new title is available for free for those using either an Apple iPhone or an iPod Touc... |
10 December 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Barack Obama, the President of the United States, seems to be referring to videogames more and more in his speeches, especially when addressing big themes like health care reform and the challenges facing the educational system. The most recent reference comes in a speech made to the American Medical Association.Here... |
17 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Today, US President Barack Obama is intent on making the final and decisive push towards a sweeping and far-reaching health care system overhaul, aiming to secure support for new sets of legislations, which have the potential of saving trillions of dollars over the next decade. The plan is also meant to improve the e... |
11 May 2009
08:40 GMT |
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It would stand to reason that laws forcing all bicycle riders to wear helmets when riding would be welcome by everyone, but, apparently, that's not the case. Peering under the surface reveals the fact that many people have renounced riding a bicycle since the introduction of these legislations, which doctors say... |
28 April 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Leading European experts have recently made it clear that fighting lung cancer, in all its forms, as well as preventing it, may be made a lot easier if physicians, surgeons, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists learned to cooperate a lot better and more efficiently share test results. Prevention programs and... |
27 April 2009
04:37 GMT |
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According to a new nation-wide study conducted in the US, very few of the country's hospitals have electronic record systems installed. Most health care institutions still keep all their sensitive medical data on paper files, stored in archives in the basement of the buildings. A measly 2 percent of them have el... |
26 March 2009
17:01 GMT |
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A medical ethicist from the Michigan State University says that the current path on which the American health care system is going is completely unsustainable, as evidenced by the fact that costs have soared to more than $2.5 trillion, and yet 48 million citizens remain uninsured. He states that such disparities do n... |
11 March 2009
07:13 GMT |
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The issue of medical health care in the case of terminally-ill patients has been under debate for quite some time now, but to little practical use. Doctors say that they do all they can for the patients with no survival chances, and that they try to divide their time as best as possible between these people and all t... |
10 March 2009
03:59 GMT |
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The latest innovations in the field of surgery and emergency health care are really astonishing, both doctors and patients admit it. But perhaps the most useful and modern system of attending to the wounded is the one developed to respond to the needs of injured soldiers on the battlefields. Researchers have created ... |
5 March 2009
04:44 GMT |
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The fact that the media influences people's perception on things is a fact known by both the outlets and the persons who watch TV daily. Still, it would appear that not many filter the information they get from their television sets, in that they tend to do exactly what they are told by various anchors. The same... |
5 March 2009
04:02 GMT |
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On Friday, president Obama and his team made the first step towards setting things in the American health care system right, when they announced that they were looking to review and replace the decisions that Bush made before he left the White House. These resolutions basically gave health care employees the poss... |
28 February 2009
03:46 GMT |
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The Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan institution, has recently announced that the number of uninsured Americans in the US is expected to grow to 54 million in roughly 10 years, from the current number of 45 million. The report says that the current economic crisis will only make things worse, seeing how mo... |
23 February 2009
09:32 GMT |
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The Rand Corporation, a non-profit entity, recently conducted a new study claiming that imposing price limitations on drugs currently available on the US market could reduce the average life expectancy of the population and offer very few savings in the long run. The report, which was funded by the pharmaceutical com... |
17 December 2008
09:28 GMT |
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The US Department of Health and Human Services recently announced a new set of guidelines that will further clarify how flu drugs will be distributed, and who will benefit from them first, in case of a flu outbreak in the country. Medical personnel and hospital staff will be the first to take the vaccines, as it is t... |
17 December 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Comprehensive statewide data recorded in California throughout 2007 revealed to UCLA researchers conducting a new statistical study that nearly 6.4 million state residents had no health insurance either for a while, or for the whole year. Some 20 percent of those under the age of 65 also lacked insurances for the sam... |
16 December 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Health care system-related statistics in the United States yield more worrying results with each passing year, experts warn. The strain of insurances forces people to benefit from only limited health care, and prompts physicians to take every precautionary step possible, in order to avoid lawsuits for malpractice. Th... |
5 December 2008
05:42 GMT |
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The use of off-label prescriptions is so widespread among American caregivers, that estimates say it accounts for 50 percent of all drug use in the country. That is to say, doctors prescribe medications for the treatment of diseases those drugs were not tested on. The FDA tests all therapies on a specific disease, an... |
11 November 2008
09:30 GMT |
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A first-of-its-kind survey looked at the differences in health care that minority and white patients got in some 1,500 physician practices throughout the United States. The results showed that black people and Native Americans felt like they were being offered sub-standard services, compared to the attention white pa... |
29 October 2008
11:51 GMT |
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New researches show that African American and Hispanic patients, along with white uninsured people, run the greatest risks when it comes to their health. Health experts say that past medical histories could account for the large number of deaths that occur from trauma especially, because specialized centers do not ha... |
21 October 2008
08:06 GMT |
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Dell, Intel and Motion Computing announced the launch of the Mobile Point of Care (MPOC) Wireless Assessment service which was designed for the assessment, designing and validation of the quality and coverage of wireless networks. The increasingly complex and mobile health care environment demands seamless and reliab... |
2 October 2008
05:24 GMT |
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A review regarding the findings of the 90+ Study in the United States, the biggest study on dementia and other health factors in the country, found recently that women with ages over 90 years are more likely to have dementia than men. The original study involved the investigation of 911 people with ages over 90 and i... |
3 July 2008
03:59 GMT |
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